Cycling; Death; Fiction; Humorous; Literary; Loss (Psychology); Psychological fiction; Sisters

The memory of running

Literature & Fiction

Ron McLarty

Contemporary

LITTLE BROWN & CO @

Starting in East Providence, RI The Memory of Running relates the odyssey of Smithson Ide, an overweight, friendless, chain-smoking, forty-three-year-old loser. Within the span of one week, Smithy's parents die of injuries from a car accident and he learns his long-lost sister's remains are waiting to be claimed in a Los Angeles morgue. Smithy's reaction to these tragedies is to climb on his three-speed Raleigh bicycle (long forgotten in his parent's garage) and set off on an incredible cross country ride. Smithy's trip is more than one of miles logged and states crossed. As he encounters men and women at their best and worst, he begins to remember who he was before beer, Vietnam and loneliness helped him to forget. He starts to find himself - his waistline - and friends as well

The Memory of Running

TIME WARNER BOOKS

VIKING

Fat Ollie's Book (87th Precinct Series #52)

ed-mcbain

Simon & Schuster Audio

Traveller

Little, Brown Book Group

<b>A New York Times Bestseller</b><p> Meet Smithson "Smithy" Ide, an overweight, friendless, chain-smoking, forty-three-year-old drunk who works as a quality control inspector at a toy-action-figure factory in Rhode Island. By all accounts, including his own, Smithy's a loser. But when his life of quiet desperation is brutally interrupted by tragedy, Smithy stumbles across his old Raleigh bicycle and impulsively sets off on an epic journey that might give him one last chance to become the person he always wanted to be.</p>

Teen & Young Adult

Thorndike Press

9 audiocassette set with bonus cassette of interview with the author. In a very nice hard case.

RECORDED BOOKS^

Die unglaubliche Geschichte des Smithy Ide Roman

Goldmann

A Recordação da Corrida

Bizâncio

Una Historia En Bicicleta (Spanish Edition)

Alfaguara

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